Ms. Ihuoma Benedicta Abosi-Ubakar is a highly accomplished finance executive and board-level advisor with over 17 years of post-qualification experience across Botswana, South Africa and the USA, spanning corporate finance, auditing, governance and executive leadership. As Chief Financial Officer of the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC), she has driven balance sheet growth, institutional transformation, treasury optimisation and innovative funding structures, including leading a team that successfully raised over P4 billion to strengthen BDC’s capital position.
She oversees financial strategy, forecasting, treasury, deal analysis, investor relations, financing structures, partnership compliance, procurement governance and enterprise-wide risk management. Her distinguished career includes over a decade at KPMG, where she rose to Associate Director and spearheaded global audit methodology deployment, including a US secondment training teams across three continents. She holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (University of Botswana), is an ICAEW Associate Member, an ACCA Fellow, a BICA Fellow, and has completed executive programmes at the University of Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer at Botswana Development Corporation and holds independent non-executive director positions on several boards on behalf of BDC as well as in her own personal capacity.
